Bone Abstracts

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Several studies have shown a higher mortality after hip fracture but the reasons and the duration of the excess risk is not well understood. We aimed to determine whether there exists a higher mortality after hip fracture when controlling for genetic constitution, environmental and life-style risk factors, and comorbidity. All 286 identical Swedish twin pairs discordant for hip fracture (1972–2010) were identified by use of the National patient register and the Swedish tw...